Women's Ice Hockey Battles To 1-1 Tie With No. 4 Clarkson

Feb 13, 2010

HAMDEN,
Conn. - Freshman goaltender Victoria Vigilanti (Woodbridge,
Ontario) matched her season-high save mark stopping 37 shots as the
Quinnipiac University women's ice hockey team tied the No. 4-ranked
Clarkson University, 1-1, Saturday afternoon. The Bobcats' record
now stands at 16-8-8 overall with a 9-4-7 record in ECAC Hockey.
The Golden Knights record holds at 20-8-4 with a 14-4-4 mark in
conference play. Quinnipiac earned one point in the ECAC with the
draw, landing in fifth place with 25 points.

The Bobcats
battled defensively through the opening stanza, blocking 14 total
shots and saving 15. The hard work paid off when freshman Brittany
Lyons (Canton, Mass.) broke into the offensive zone and scored the
game-opening goal with 58 seconds remaining in the first period.
Positioned atop the left faceoff circle, junior Kelley Davies
(Chesapeake, Va.) found Lyons in the slot where the freshman
forward snuck the puck to the left of the goaltender for the 1-0
lead. Sophomore Bethany Dymarczyk (Hamden, Conn.) also registered
an assist on the play.

Clarkson
capitalized on a two-skater advantage midway through the second
period to even the score at 1-1. The Bobcats had two players
serving in the penalty box, and just as one was released, junior
Melissa Waldie collected a soft rebound off Vigilanti and tipped it
into the back of the net. Dominique Thibault and Carlee Eusepi were
each credited with assists on the play.

Freshman
winger Breehan Polci (London, Ontario) saw the best scoring
opportunity for Quinnipiac in the third period. She sped down the
right lane and fired a shot off Clarkson goaltender Lauren Dahm
that deflected to the left side. Polci quickly wrapped around the
net to collect the deflection and poke it into the open goal, but a
Golden Knights' defender laid out to tap the puck out of play and
deny the possible game-winner.

True to
form, Vigilanti saw a strong game in net for the Bobcats as she
turned aside 37 saves in the tie. Dahm recorded 25 saves in goal
for Clarkson.

Quinnipiac
returns to action next weekend in their final series of the regular
season. The Bobcats will host Yale on Friday night at 7 p.m., and
will take on Brown on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the TD Bank Sports
Center.